Why F1 chiefs are running out of time

There are massive issues facing F1, but for now just getting its new Commission and Strategy Groups properly formed and meeting is a challenge, one that DIETER RENCKEN tries to unravel

Nothing better illustrates the utter mess Formula 1 presently finds itself in than the current debacle surrounding the sport's governance.

Last Friday marked D-Day for one last round of final discussions about the 2014 technical and sporting regulations plus a raft of items crucial to F1's future, yet one by one the scheduled Strategy Group (morning) and Formula 1 Commission (afternoon) sessions were postponed to December 9.